Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

The ultimate power struggle between the greatest detective who never lived and the writer who came t...

Take a technological thrill ride The Magic of Flight takes you on a technological thrill ride faster...

Amateur taxidermist, Walter Potter, became an unlikely success by putting his creatures in human pos...

One of the greatest engineering feats in history, the modern US nuclear carrier is a masterpiece of...

In an age when women were incapable of joining the artistic dialogue, Lilias Trotter managed to win...

In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundre...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Classified "Top Secret" by the Navy and banished by the Department of Defense, this is the true acco...

At the end of the Victorian era, E. W. Barton-Wright combined jiujitsu, kickboxing, and stick fighti...

Jack the Ripper was a prince, a pauper, a mason, a madman... A host of more and more bizarre theorie...

Young boys going into the sea water by Brighton's West Pier in the UK to pick up pennies thrown in b...

The small but immensely powerful Admiral Graf Spee was the pride of Hitler's naval fleet. Restricted...

Over the serene and verdant landscape of Northern California, a man with an everlasting childlike sp...

This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...

Sixty-years after setting sail on the PT 658, a group of World War II veterans reminisce about their...

Equal parts documentary, essay, and narrative,"Captain Elliot's Circle" is mostly a poetic interacti...

This film shows the duties of a young British sailor, Lieutenant Ellison, as his submarine H.M. Arte...

14 September 1943: The legendary submarine Y1 “Katsonis” was sunk north of the island of Skiathos by...

Travel back to Victorian Britain and wander the cobbled streets of Haworth to the sites that inspire...

Relive the infamous 2012 shipwreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia and follow the engineering fea...